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Birmingham City Council said about 25 kits had been given out by mistake in the student area of Selly Oak as part of its “drop-and-collect” service.

As the deputies responded, they each hit the body of the pedestrian, who was still in the middle of the road, officials said.  The Florida Highway Patrol said the pedestrian had already been killed in the first collision.

A French museum has postponed an exhibit about the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan citing interference by the Chinese government, which it accuses of trying to rewrite history.

Police spokesman Sgt. L’Jean McKneely Jr. said the bus was unlocked and had a push start button, meaning no key was required.

“He had come to Peru with the dream of being able to enter,” Peru’s minister of culture, Alejandro Neyra said at a press conference Monday

“Voters do not have to worry about contracting COVID from their mail-in ballots,” said Courtney Bailey-Kanelos, Registrar of Voters in Sacramento County.

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — What looks like an asteroid may just be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission more than 50 years ago. The newly spotted object is expected to get nabbed by Earth’s gravity and become a mini moon next month.

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press It’s official. It’s now the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant in Danbury, Connecticut. The City Council voted 18-1 Thursday night to rename the plant after the comedian, who began a tongue-in-cheek battle with Danbury when he went on an expletive-filled